Carolina Wren

Thryothorus ludovicianus

Year-round in CharlotteCommon
Great Carolina Wren (Havell pl. 78) — engraved plate of the Carolina Wren
Great Carolina Wren (Havell pl. 78) · Robert Havell after John James Audubon · CC0

The take

Small bird, enormous voice — the teakettle song carrying over the fence is this one.

How to ID it

  • Small chunky round bird with a long, slender, downcurved bill
  • Bright unpatterned reddish-brown above, warm buffy-orange below, with a long white eyebrow stripe
  • Cocks its tail upward while foraging and sings loudly and constantly to defend its territory

Field marks at a glance

Size
small
Head
reddish-brown with white eyebrow stripe
Call
ringing teakettle-teakettle-teakettle

Where & when

Year-round in Charlotte

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